MK Yoram Marciano, chairman of the Labor Knesset faction, fled Thursday night police giving him a traffic ticket, after he was caught driving on a highway's passing lane while shaving, traffic police said.

Before he fled, Marciano allegedly tried to dissuade police from fining him by saying they couldn't give an MK a ticket, and if they did there would be personal consequences for them.

Volunteers in the police's Traffic Division stationed on highway 40 noticed a driver shaving while driving on the passing lane, near the Kerach junction near Ramle. The volunteers ordered him to pull over, and asked for his license.

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The driver asked to know the reason for his being stopped, and the volunteer police told him that shaving while driving is a crime similar to driving while holding a mobile phone. The fine for this violation is NIS 500 and six license points.

After this, the police contacted their commanding officer and told him the driver identified himself as MK Yoram Marciano, showed them his MK identification pass, and said that as such they could not fine him. They also stated Marciano said he was recording them and threatened them saying they would get into trouble if they persisted in fining him.

The traffic police said Marciano fled the scene in his car when after their commander told them MKs have no immunity from traffic fines, and they began to write him out a ticket.

Marciano confirmed he was stopped by traffic police after he was caught "shaving while driving and not holding the wheel with both hands," but denied he fled from them. He said he immediately admitted to committing the violation, and told them to send the fine to his home address.

A police check showed Marciano has to date committed over 70 traffic violations. Police said that in allegedly fleeing before receiving the ticket, Marciano committed the criminal offense of obstructing a police officer in performing his job.

In March, Marciano was indicted for his involvement in a brawl at the Rio bar in Herzliya.

One of the security guards at the bar claimed Yoram Marciano had spat into his ear, swore at him and insulted his mother. Another guard complained that in addition to assaulting him, Marciano threw out a threat, boasting his connections with Netanya crime figure Riko Shirazi, who would "take care" of the guards at Marciano's request. Marciano denied all the allegations, calling them "cheap smears."